DOMAINE MICHEL JUILLOT
Mercurey 1er cru Clos des Barraults
2020
- Sustainable
$55.25
About this winery
In Mercurey, a village nestled in Burgundy on the famous Côte Chalonnaise, the Michel Julliot Estate, which has existed for four generations, cultivates 30 hectares of vines producing a large selection of the best "climats" Mercurey has to offer as well as several Côte de Beaune crus. The quality of a wine is the result of the straightforwardness and the brightness of its color, the delicacy and the clarity of its aromas, the intensity, the complexity, and the persistancy of its flavors....
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Product notes
Manual harvest – Selective picking on sorting table – Full bunches in the press – 12 hours settling of the big lees – Fermentation in oak barrel – Temperature control – Natural yeast. 12 months in oak barrel – 30% new barrels – Malolactic fermentation completed – Fining before bottling.
Tasting notes
There is a hint of tropical to the dried apricot, mango, white peach and honeysuckle suffused nose that is trimmed in noticeable but still discreet wood toast. There is fine density to the delicious and seductively textured medium weight flavors that brim with dry extract that should allow the wood treatment that resurfaces on the balanced and persistent finish to be successfully absorbed in time. This is really quite good and while this could be enjoyed young my sense is that a good deal more complexity will develop with 2 to 3 years of bottle age.”